12 Bible Verses about Avoiding Deceit

For he that loveth life and desireth to see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips, that they speak no guile:

Wherefore laying aside all wickedness, and all guile, and dissimulation, and envies,

concerning your former conversation, the old man, which is corrupt, according to the deceitful desires:

For we also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, inslaved to various desires and pleasures, living in wickedness and envy, hateful, hating one another:

Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that also shall he reap.

Let no one deceive you with vain words; for because of these things the wrath of God cometh upon the sons of disobedience.

Let no man deceive you by any means, for that day shall not come, unless the falling away come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition,

Beloved children, let no one deceive you. He that practiseth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

And this I say, that no man may beguile you with inticing words.

For our exhortation is not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile.

Through honour and dishonour, through evil report and good report; as deceivers, yet true, As unknown, yet well-known;

Beware lest any man make a prey of you through philosophy and empty deceit, after the traditions of men, after the rudiments of this world, and not after Christ.